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“It’s a really weird thing, a bit of extra bone that needed removing and it had been causing a lot of pain in that area every time I was running or kicking the ball. It’s been a bit of a struggle for the last six weeks or so, so it’s something that I had to get sorted."

James Collins says John Terry is taking him and Mark Noble out for dinner

James Collins is a cult hero at the Hammers. (Image: Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

"John Terry text me and Mark Noble saying, 'If you boys beat Tottenham there’s a dinner or a night out on the Chelsea boys,' so that was nice,”

"But we wanted to beat Tottenham anyway.”

“We’re lucky we did in the end looking at the result we got after that. It was a massive result, it put us safe and obviously to beat our closest rivals at home was massive,” he added.

Zabaleta admits he could return to Manchester City in a different Premier League shirt

"I would not be the first to leave a club after so many years and come back in a different shirt.

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"I am not getting any younger but I can play for two more years and have got offers from different countries. The Premier League is the greatest competition in the world and to come back and play against City would be tough.